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contacting UK from US

#5014
From: Alexios Zavras
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1988 04:02
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	Since I've seen some other postings bout this subject, I might
as well ask for help for my problem:
	I'm trying to reach my cousin in LSE (London School of Economics)
from the U of Wisc where I am.
I have sent him a mail using the address
	leopoulos%vax2.lse.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net
that someone (not the sysadmin for the machine) said it should work.

	The mail reached its destination, since I got a reply with headers:

> From LEOPOULOS@VAX2.LSE.AC.UK Wed Nov  2 09:14 EST 1988
> Received: from vms3.macc.wisc.edu by rocky.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 2 Nov 88 09:14:52 EST
> Received: from UKACRL.BITNET by vms3.macc.wisc.edu; Wed, 2 Nov 88 08:14 CST
> Received: from RL.IB by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 4187; Wed, 02 Nov 88 12:27:22 GMT
> Received: from RL.IB by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5028; Wed, 02 Nov 88 12:27:22 GM
> Message-Id: <18110208141218@vms3.macc.wisc.edu>
> Date: 2-NOV-1988 12:25:18 GMT
> From: LEOPOULOS@VAX2.LSE.AC.UK
> To: G-ZAVRAS
> Via:      UK.AC.LSE.VAX2;  2 NOV 88 12:27:16 GMT
> Status: R

	Well, now the funny part: I learned (by telephone) that
my cousin has been contacted by the Foreign Office and cautioned
NEVER to receive such mail again, or he'll be deported !!!
Needless to say, my cousin was very upset and I haven't tried 
to reach him again...

	Could someone (Mr. Brian Tompsett ?) explain what (and,
if possible, why) hapenned ? Is there a way to send mail to LSE ?
(without any danger for my cousin :-)

		Thanx
--
					Alexios Zavras (-zvr-)
					zavras@cleo.cs.wisc.edu
					g-zavras@rocky.cs.wisc.edu
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From: g-zavras@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Alexios Zavras)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: contacting UK from US
Summary: strange things, mystifying
Keywords: unix vms mail uucp sendmail janet
Message-ID: <6632@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 88 04:02:36 GMT
Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu
Reply-To: g-zavras@rocky.CS.WISC.EDU (Alexios Zavras)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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